I've seen both. I wonder if it's a regional, generational, or some combination (kinda like MAGA).
At an old company, two coworkers around my age (Oregon Trail Generation), who had their family immigrate when they were young, treated women with respect and were not rude at all.
New company, worked with two older solidly Gen-x who immigrated with family in the 90's and they treated women like dirt. Catcalled women in public like it was natural, rude comments about them (right in front of them) didn't think female construction testing women knew anything, just general disregard for any female.
One of the inspectors was on a construction project that involved us talking to residents in the neighborhood frequently. The Resident Engineer explicitly told him that of he was caught being rude to any woman, he would be fired, so he purposely stayed away from women on that project.